Windows will not return from standby most of the time

[Anubis08]

What could be causing this problem. When I hit a button to bring out of standbby it will not respond at all to any button or buttons. It is getting annoying.

 

[D1gger]

Details? Which windows? What hardware? New build? Always acted this way, or is this new? Have you made any recent changes?

 

[Anubis08]

Sorry, win xp pro, and this is not a new build (built mid last year), but it has done it since built. I have a Gainward 6800 GT, AMD 3500+, plextor 712, 160 GB seagate sata hdd, and 1 gb kvr on a MSI K8N Neo2 platinum.

 

[D1gger]

Try this link to a Microsoft known problem.

 

[h2]

That's funny, windows 98 and 2000 had the same problems, I gave up on standby and hibernation years ago, too buggy. That MS report is very typical, I've read so many of those, they all claim that the problem is 'fixed' by the latest service pack, the one I've usually installed 6 months before seeing the problem in the first place. Good to see that standby and hibernation are still buggy.

 

[spyordie007]

Also make sure you're running a recent/stable bios revision. Typically these types of problems are hardware compatability related.

That's funny, windows 98 and 2000 had the same problems, I gave up on standby and hibernation years ago, too buggy. That MS report is very typical, I've read so many of those, they all claim that the problem is 'fixed' by the latest service pack, the one I've usually installed 6 months before seeing the problem in the first place. Good to see that standby and hibernation are still buggy.

Standby in 9x was really bad (but than again standby in most OSes at that time were also pretty bad). 2000 was considerably better but still had a few problems. If running on stable/recent hardware XP's hibernation and standby tend to work very well.

Typically issues you'll see with machines coming out of hibernate or standby are hardware and compatability related (not just an internal Windows issue). Microsoft can do a lot to work around these types of problems but it's naive to think that it's going to work flawlessly all the time with all the hardware configurations out there. Not to mention all the times when the hardware isnt 100% ACPI complient or 100% stable.

I've used hibernate religiously on my laptops since 2000 came out. The only *problem* I ever had with it was with 2000 and it was fixed by updating the bios.

-Erik

 

[Mark R]

I've found that the cause is usually a buggy driver for a peripheral: e.g. printer, modem. Very occasionally, it could be some software you've installed, although I've not found this problem on my systems. (Potentially buggy spyware could do this??)

I've found alcatel modems to be pretty bad at recovering from standby. lexmark printers, too, seem to prevent recovery.

 

[h2]

I've always just booted, and the odd thing is, I read person after person talking about having to reinstall their os, their os bogging down, etc, and mine just keeps chugging along, I could easily see still using this W2K box in 2010 barring any hardware failure. I think windows likes rebooting, it uses that to clean out a bunch of junk, and to do some basic reorganization of stuff.

Nice to hear hibernation/standby sometimes works for some people if there are no driver or bios problems... I continue to urge clients to just reboot, it only takes a few minutes. On a laptop it does make sense though, they are so much slower.